The Logos Amulet

A time-travel fantasy novel

Failed student and multilinguist Leyla Halliday returns to the Istanbul, Turkey of her childhood to escape problems in the U.S., and to get a fresh start on her dissertation.

When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, Leyla follows a clue on an ancestral amulet that long obsessed her father and falls into 11th century Constantinople during the reign of the Byzantine Empress Zoe.

In Byzantium, Leyla convinces a monk Nicholas to help her in her quest to find the now-stolen amulet. In dreams of her earlier ancestors, she comes to understand her family's role in the origins of language, while battling a sorceress who also craves the amulet's secrets.